How to format your references using the International Journal of Biological Macromolecules citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for International Journal of Biological Macromolecules. For a complete guide how to prepare your manuscript refer to the journal's instructions to authors.

Using reference management software

Typically you don't format your citations and bibliography by hand. The easiest way is to use a reference manager:

Paperpile	The citation style is built in and you can choose it in Settings > Citation Style or Paperpile > Citation Style in Google Docs.
EndNote	Download the output style file
Mendeley, Zotero, Papers, and others	The style is either built in or you can download a CSL file that is supported by most references management programs.
BibTeX	BibTeX syles are usually part of a LaTeX template. Check the instructions to authors if the publisher offers a LaTeX template for this journal.

Journal articles

Those examples are references to articles in scholarly journals and how they are supposed to appear in your bibliography.

Not all journals organize their published articles in volumes and issues, so these fields are optional. Some electronic journals do not provide a page range, but instead list an article identifier. In a case like this it's safe to use the article identifier instead of the page range.

A journal article with 1 author

[1]

T.F. Stuessy, Evolutionary biology: Sympatric plant speciation in islands?, Nature 443 (2006) E12; discussion E12-3.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

N. Campbell, M. Grayson, Index 2014 Global, Nature 515 (2014) S49.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

K. Nagashima, A.N. Krot, H. Yurimoto, Stardust silicates from primitive meteorites, Nature 428 (2004) 921–924.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

[1]

R. Belotserkovskaya, S. Oh, V.A. Bondarenko, G. Orphanides, V.M. Studitsky, D. Reinberg, FACT facilitates transcription-dependent nucleosome alteration, Science 301 (2003) 1090–1093.

Books and book chapters

Here are examples of references for authored and edited books as well as book chapters.

An authored book

[1]

C. Furger, Live Cell Assays, John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ, 2016.

An edited book

[1]

K. Al-Begain, A. Bargiela, eds., Seminal Contributions to Modelling and Simulation: 30 Years of the European Council of Modelling and Simulation, Springer International Publishing, Cham, 2016.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

X.-L. Mao, D. Wang, Y.-J. Hao, W. Yuan, H. Huang, A Comparative Study of Answer-Contained Snippets and Traditional Snippets, in: S. Ma, J.-R. Wen, Y. Liu, Z. Dou, M. Zhang, Y. Chang, X. Zhao (Eds.), Information Retrieval Technology: 12th Asia Information Retrieval Societies Conference, AIRS 2016, Beijing, China, November 30 – December 2, 2016, Proceedings, Springer International Publishing, Cham, 2016: pp. 56–67.

Web sites

Sometimes references to web sites should appear directly in the text rather than in the bibliography. Refer to the Instructions to authors for International Journal of Biological Macromolecules.

Blog post

[1]

E. Andrew, How Dangerous Is The Sodium Cyanide Found At The Chinese Explosion Site?, IFLScience (2015).

Reports

This example shows the general structure used for government reports, technical reports, and scientific reports. If you can't locate the report number then it might be better to cite the report as a book. For reports it is usually not individual people that are credited as authors, but a governmental department or agency like "U. S. Food and Drug Administration" or "National Cancer Institute".

Government report

[1]

Government Accountability Office, Aviation Safety: FAA Needs to More Aggressively Manage Its Inspection Program, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, 1992.

Theses and dissertations

Theses including Ph.D. dissertations, Master's theses or Bachelor theses follow the basic format outlined below.

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

B.J. Van Gilder, American students’ communication abroad: Factors promoting and inhibiting interactions with host nationals, Doctoral dissertation, California State University, Long Beach, 2012.

News paper articles

Unlike scholarly journals, news papers do not usually have a volume and issue number. Instead, the full date and page number is required for a correct reference.

New York Times article

[1]

M. Kelly, Clinton Campaign Avoided Workers’ Taxes, New York Times (1993) 127.

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by sequential numbers in square brackets:

This sentence cites one reference [1].
This sentence cites two references [1,2].
This sentence cites four references [1–4].

About the journal

Full journal title	International Journal of Biological Macromolecules
Abbreviation	Int. J. Biol. Macromol.
ISSN (print)	0141-8130
Scope	Biochemistry Molecular Biology Structural Biology General Medicine